Career
Kalfayan founded both the "Order of Kalfayan" and, in 1850, a school for girls which still stands today (Though now it accepts boys as well). In 1865 she mobilized financial support for the victims of a cholera epidemic and on 1 January 1866 she opened an orphanage for girls in Hasköy, Constantinople. Kalyfan died on 4 July 1889.
Her name is commemorated in the "Kalfayan Elementary School".
